ethtool not in default system anymore?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 13 15:54:43 UTC 2010


Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:06:50PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > It looks like up through F12, initscripts required ethtool (so it was
> > definately installed by default).  I see this in the RPM changelog:
> 
> Still the case in RHEL5, FWIW.

I'm assuming you mean RHEL 6; it just seemed too big of a change to debut
in RHEL at the time we branched.  However, it has worked pretty well in
Fedora so far to just rely on the carrier attribute in sysfs.

Bill


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